Word: havasupai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People of the Blue Water, by Flora Gregg Iliff (Harper; $3.75), is the unusual story of how Author Iliff half a century ago taught school to an inaccessible Indian tribe called Havasupai. The Havasupai numbered only 250 and lived in Arizona at the bottom of an eight-mile canyon wall, 70 miles from the nearest town, which was a hot, dusty hamlet that "looked as if it had been blown in on a dry wind and stranded." Author Iliff served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail...